Imagine what trying to apply for a job is like when your name is Eldridge Cleaver. Somehow I think a lot of famous arrested people -- MLK himself -- are by dint of being arrested somewhat freed from the 9-5 job cycle, since they can go on lecture tours for thousands of dollars per speech. This is how disgraced apparatchiks in politics seem to make it all back, and they aren't even always arrested.

Hey, so I've got kind of a weird question. Did Rosa Parks's arrest show up on background checks when she went to apply for jobs?

I believe she did lose her job as did her husband and they eventually had to move.

One of the radical UW-Madison students who bombed the Army Math Research Center (during the Vietnam war) worked for years as a self-employed street vendor (selling juice and what-not). The bombing resulted in the death of a graduate student who was working in the wee hours of the morning.

After her arrest, Parks became an icon of the civil rights movement and suffered hardship as a result. She lost her job at the department store and her husband quit his after his boss forbade him from talking about Rosa or the legal case. Mrs Parks traveled and spoke extensively to raise money for her legal fees. In 1957, the Raymond and Rosa Parks left Montgomery for Hampton, Virginia, mostly because Mrs. Parks was unable to find work, but also due to disagreements with Dr. King and other leaders of Montgomery's struggling civil rights movement. In Hampton, she found a job as a hostess in an inn at Hampton Institute. Later that year, at the urging of her younger brother, Sylvester, Mrs. Parks, Raymond Parks and her mother, Leona McCauley, moved to Detroit, Michigan. Mrs. Parks worked as a seamstress until 1965 when U. S. Representative John Conyers (D-Michigan) hired her as a secretary and receptionist for his Congressional office in Detroit. She held this position until she retired in 1988.

Huh. Went outside for a smoke break right as the White Sox happened to be passing by my building. So that was ok. All these freaking people better be gone by the time I leave work, though.

I hate it when I go to the Post Office and find that the White Sox are in line ahead of me....

Hey, peeps. I need help finding something on the Internets.

Specifically, a source other than Sunmaid's bulk order for Muscat raisins.

I would like to take this time to bitch about the narrowing of raisin selection in the baking aisles over the last several years. I want my freaking Muscats, people!

I would like to take this time to bitch about the narrowing of raisin selection in the baking aisles over the last several years. I want my freaking Muscats, people!

Not just selection, but quality. It seems like a total crapshoot whether you get decent fruit or dried up husks.

Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full FOrce!

I'm all cried out!

My official work hours are 7:16-3:24 (seriously. that's how it's listed.)

That's freaky. I did have one job that was, like, 9:30 to 6:45 but that was the weirdest I have experienced.

Plei, it looks like this place may have Muscat raisins. Another raisin industry website referred to it as a grower that offers bags o' Muscats; on the other hand, I don't see anything specifically on its own website saying as much; on the other other hand, there's a toll-free number so you could at least call on their dime and get a definitive answer.